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That is what I originally though.
But now I seriously doubt R1a in Turks is due to Iranic men through rape but rather interracial marrages. Turks also have high percentages of Caucasian maternal lineage.
R1a seems to have predated the existence of Turks.
There are many Part Mongoloid - predominately Mongoloid men with R1a buried with Caucasian/Europoid women, long before the existence of the name Turks or any kind of expansion. Even the high R1a Turks like Altay and Kyrgyz have 27 - 42% Caucasian maternal lineage. This shows it was done by interracial marriages not rape.
FOR EXAMPLE THE IRANIC CULTURE OF PAZYRYK IN 3rd BC century shows Mongoloid looking males like Kyrgyz buried with Caucasian females in western Siberia.
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Craniological studies of samples from the Pazyryk burials revealed the presence of both Mongoloid and Caucasoid components in this population.[6] quoting G. F. Debets on the physical characteristics of the population in the Pazyryk kurgans, records a mixed population. The men would seem to be part Mongoloid and the women Europoid.[7] "
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